(a) In what medical specialties does your business card/office door say you practice?

(b) In what medical specialties do you half-assedly practice when your patients show up and ask questions completely unrelated to your official specialties because it's easier to get in to see you than to get in to see the other kind of doctor?

(c) In what medical specialties do you admit to practicing at dinner parties when you can tell another guest is just dying to get free professional advice?

(d) In what medical specialties are you willing to try to practice if you are on a plane and a flight attendant starts shouting "Is anyone here a doctor?" and it turns out everybody else on the flight is with some high school's senior trip?

(e) In what medical specialties would you practice if you could go back to your 4th year of med school and do it all over again?

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